[macvoiceover] Re: using different voices for different things on the mac?

  • From: Marcy Weinberg <rhymingmom1@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:16:19 -0400

I'm using the infovox voices with no problems.

On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:37 PM, James Dean wrote:

> I tried changing the content voice to Cepstral David, which is licensed. This 
> was a very bad idea. Voiceover crashed as soon as it was started and tried to 
> speak something with that voice. I had to get sighted assistance to change 
> the content voice back to default and then I uninstalled David and William. 
> Maybe the Infovox would work better, but I'm scared to try them now.
> 
> James A. Dean
> 
> 
> On Mar 25, 2011, at 1:25 AM, Justin Mann wrote:
> 
>> I suspect that it will make some stuff work better.  i notice that the 
>> infovox voices to tend to take up an extra thread on activity monitor, but 
>> they do work pretty good.  I'm impressed.  
>> On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:02 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Justin Mann wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I've just installed the infovox voices as a demo I'd like to use those for 
>>>> reading.  However, I'd like to use Alex for various system announcements.  
>>>> Is this possible?
>>> Yep, it sure is.
>>> In your voiceover utility , if you click on voices, you can adjust all 
>>> sorts of things, including which voice is used for announcements, which one 
>>> is the primary voice, and so forth.  You can also set pitch, volume, and 
>>> speed on each voice, as well as select which voice does the talking.  This 
>>> helps, especially if you're doing a lot of reading, because if you're using 
>>> different voices, then you don't get interrupted, your primary voice keeps 
>>> right on reading while the other one pops up and speaks the info in the 
>>> announcement message box.
>>> Hth.
>>> 
>>> 
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